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the weather ffi â€¢ â€¢' t ' fvj3 chicaj and vicinity â€” fair s v thursday a.,j probably friday no v i v much change in temperature aocs aijtf vol viii no 1 1 6 a m Chicago examiner thursday Chicago may 5 1910 14 pages thursday registered in c s fatent offiw exceptional bargains if are offered daily in the musical in iv struments columns of the examiner t if you wish to get a new or second y i hand piano at a very moderate price i read the luam jsds * v pricf one cent delivered dy carrier 30 cents per morti chilly greeting given to Taft by farmers convention by john temple graves empty galleries and brief half-hearted applause wel come president when he addresses union in st louis audience slowly and in squads rises to feet but quickly sits again rural hearers won't pretend cordiality john temple graves rouses agriculturists to enthusi asm urging them to prose cute issues in congress st louis mo may 4.-at to-day's session of the farmers union lohn temple graves was introduced by national i'resi > deiu barrett immediately preceding presi dent Taft mr barrett sn id that mr graves was the first prominent editor who had ever writ ten au editorial in behalf of the farmers union lie was also the first prominent man win had made a speech in behalf of the farmers union and that having been tlie first best mid most helpful friend of the union in its struggling years of poverty lie was never to he forgotten in this hoir of the union's greatness and power ami that he was doubly welcome because be was now allied with those great hearst newspapers which were the greatest the motfj powerful and most helpful friends the farmers union had in all america uses own statistics mr graves spoke lo the farmers from statistics gathered by himself from their i records which showed the inarvelo:!s powth and the wonderful influence ofj the organization he stirred liie conven tion to great enthusiasm by cbailcuiriii the american farmer to the idea that b"ja responsibility in the whole country was i cx.-vt proportion to his magnificent power and opportunity he urged them to vigor bus prosecution of their great issue befoi ej congress and asked them to fmpplemebtj those issues by addiug the initiative the i referendum and the recall direct nocuina-j tionv by the people and government ownership of telegraphs and telephones j now as â– â– , preliminary to owning the oth-'rj great public utilities later it is only a statement of fact to say i tl:at ti:e leaders of the farmers movement i declared mr graves speech to be the most instructive and helpful so far in the convention o t louis mo 1 g may 4 if this â– metropolis of t the southwest is i ny fair barometer f political teeing in ] he next presiden i inl campaign tlieu ; emorsoless candor ] must compel me to oufesti that the | iresent admiiilstrn 1 ion poiuts a seaut irospect of a second erui never since 1 uavo ieen a witness of ub i i c occasions have i seen so poor n trek-uine accorded to an occupant of the .. white house as the people of st i.ouis have accorded to william h Taft 1 am too sincerely fond of the president to-Â«x bggerate anything to his detriment but i have a sense of actual indignation that the sheer sense of civic courtesy could not have evoked a better demonstration than st louis gave to william h Taft theie was nothing discourteous that was done but it was the lack of the thing which ought to have been that makes notable the scene in the coliseum to-day i few farmers on stage the president came promptly at 11 o'clock to t lie convention ball there was â€¢ comparatively email fringe of f public men and representative farmers on the j mr.ple stage of the coliseum there was ; n full and brilliant audience in the body of the house the hist gallery was ouly | obe-foartb full and the second gallery had i lmt a seat occupied when the president advanced to bfei ! scar in front there was only one full but ] brief round of applause in which one-half i nf he audience participated slowly anil lji squads the audience followed the ex ahipl of ihe men on the stage and rose to ll'pir feet but sat down again so iuirk lv tout the tribute lost its grace and gig j niticalk e there wa not one spontaneous and sns tallied expression of welcome from the time mr Taft reached his chair until the lime he began to speak saving only the carves harriman tomb and wins his daughter miss fiary harrim c c rumsey young sculptor and miss mary betrcthed in studio romance i new yobs may 4 when e h har riman died a sculptor was sought to carve his tomb charles cary ramsey whose studio was in a dingy building here was selected to-day mr ramsey's family in ! buffalo announced his betrtrtnnl to miss mary harriman mr bmnsey graduated at harvard in 1002 his father was rich but young humsey went to paris to study he was there when miss harriman was reported ! engaged on her trin to the far east with i alice booserek and the Taft party to ! 1 willard straight he was in his tttkito ! j when miss hairiman was reported en i gaged to robert walton coelet mr | i goelet introduced ifc liuiusey to tile liar j ! j-iiuans when mr umuney ivcui to arde <> fjj design the memorial miss harriman v.li ', cares a great deal for horses discovered ! he was n bold and sure rider the ioelet j engagement was denied mr huinsey completed his memorial ami : went back to his studio one day miss harrin::in called on the street floor there was a tailor shop she climbed three flights of creaky stairs the odor of the j janitor's onion stew following hard she i found the sculptor working upon a bead 1 of herself in bas-relief an artist can make a more accurate por trait from i living model than from mem ory miss harriman's fancy took in the practical circumstance so there followed many sittings and now comes the en gagement announcement 12,000,000 for steel sick fund will also pay death benefit anil old age pensions new yokk may 4 ln confirmation of the recent report by the united states steel corporation that a plan was under consideration whereby employes of the company would receive sick nnd death ben efits and a pension after a prescribed term of service judge e h gary â€¢ chairman of the board of directors of the steel com pany to-day issued a statement declaring the corporation had set aside 8,000,000 for the benefit of its employes which added to andrew carnegie's 4,000,000 gift would make an endowment of 12,000,000 the aggregate amount will be known as the united states steel and carnegie pension fund and will be administered by s board of twelve trustees eight of whom have been appointed l>y the uuited states steel corporation and four by mr car negie 30,000 homeless in fire special cable to the examiner kobe japan may 4 reports from aomori northern japan partially destroyed by fl"e tuesday say 8,000 houses and all public bnlmlnga we hurued thirty lliousnnds persons are homeless ami six teen perished the loss is estimated t 10,000,000 mrs dean's letter to tweedie read heavenly twin daughters of late millionaire reveal stepmother's secrets regrets 25,000 pactj missive speaks of grace's i lies and tells of teach ing with awful import in an attempt to show that mrs 3 klla j wood liean stepmother of the beautiful j dean girls at the time o f her marriage ! to millionaire joha k dean did not sign j away her widow's right to his 1,400,000 estate for 20,000 through ignorance of i the world " the first of a series of letters was introduced in court yesterday by at torneys representing mr deans four daughters who are determined that their i stepmother shall not share in the dÂ£an j millions lats in the afternoon argument began i over the introduction of one letter and judge ball will decide this morning whether it is admissible this letter speaks of a broken engagement and is introduced to show that mrs dean before her en j gagement to the aged millionaire had j loved and been loved in turn and that she j was no unsophisticated girl when she j signed the antenuptial agreement which | gave her but si'.ooo in event of dean's j death mrs dean claims that she was not | thoroughly apprised of what she was doing j when she signed away her dower rights to ! her husband's millions tweedie letter is read the letter that was read was one of the | tweedie " letters this name beiug used by xl is dean as a lore-name for her hus band being a made-over adjective to take the place of the more conventional sweetie ills dean's letter to her hus band was partly as follows dear tweedie the eve of our mar riage when i read the couditians you imposed upon me it was plain that in your estimation i did not reach a vor.r high limit i said to you that though 1 had never spoken a word with grace i mrs grace dean jackson i that to be subjected to her lies and with your de votion to her combined there would lie no i-hance for me in ihv future i read her character to a dot the first time i saw her i 1 liiiiiic 1 have attested my love t you in n large measure by many sacri fices for your children but m.v repu tation and happiness are not any of thuse requirements god himself owes me those and i lave always taken them as my right money is the para mount tiling to you it is a question if anybody or any thing could replace a few dollars in your affections but several months ago 1 decided that if it were possible for me to get an engagement in new york i would still further make you happy , by freeing myself from you in order to lose the galling humiliation of tha awful contract from a baby ray first lessons were in self respect and to be virtuous awful import in teaching evidently mrs dean after ber marriage j bitterly regretted the 523,000 contract for in one nan of the letter she snys it is putting the first bitter drop into my life that was as happy and careless as a bird's but love is the only thing i want but 1 don't believe 1 shall ever get it so i steel myself again to the inevitable and look forward simply to protect myself from a danger that eter nally reaches over my head and gives me no peace my first impression of grace was cor rect a girl who will not trust or obey her own father cannot be trusted and i cannot or hihÃŸt not put my life my whole future and present my all into her hands we have had trouble enough in our family perhaps this is going to be dis gustingly like a repetition of it un less i failed to keep my self-respect it would be wiser for me dot to be driven from pillar to post by both you and grace i was willing to keep peace at any cost but the cost is too great and the peace not lo be had in the end this may sound harsh or cut and dried as though one made over a life time like a garment to fit every mood it is only with the deepest and sin cerest religious prayer i cannot write ghicago will have real opera stars imccormick and davves get caruso garden farrar nordica and tetrazzini greatest works assured ; will produce thais pel lias melisande and num | ber of other classics i Chicago may 4 1910 to tho stockholders of the Chicago j grand opera company in connection vith the plans which have been completed mr harold v mccormic.k mid mr charles ft d:iwcs visited the new yoru stockholders dur | ing ihe last wool they are glad to report that subject 1o ratification by the Chicago board of i directors arrangements have been made whereby tie Chicago opera company organization will be used by philadel phia baltimore and new york for the | balance of the operatic season not given in Chicago this insures the opera company a full season in well estab lished operatic communities we are also able to report thni the purchase by the metropolitan interests of the hammerstein organization and property will result in the Chicago opera company having the right to tie hummerstein operas and their best artists including mary garden and tetrazzini and the rights to such opevas as thais l'ellias and melisanfie aad others the Chicago opera company will have at its disposal the best talent of the world and will start its kail sea son wilh every prospect of success wo are glad to state that the sup port accorded by the citizens of chi cago to t'ne project have exceeded our anticipations as well as our necessities kespeetfully hauold f mcoiimick chakles g dawks Chicago will have a ten or twelve weeks season of grand opera next winter and the operas will be sung by the Chicago grand opera company as the letter above indicates after passing through many trials and tribulations retbucks uid disappointments struggles and nioi-k limn struggles tin ' men who set about 1o give Chicago her ' own graud opera company have succeeded and what is more they tiud that they have builded better than they planned artists and artistes whom the promoters of the company hud no idea they could ! secure will sing for Chicago audiences i and operas which it was not thought they j could produce will be staged in the audi torium theater during the grand opera season . j i famous artists are secured the list of grand opera stars whom i tlie Chicago graud opera company has or i will shortly have under contract includes ! canasa baxmnairo white slezaft e anpplic kmimiietzoff ] destinn â€¢ arimondi gardcu hnniiea degtenwos zcrola sclnunann-hciuk kotkcskn mcc'ormack syit.i mazarto kotchesc orcnvillr farrar ijalleru zeppill amato herardi tetraziini melba renaud hafsi kanms lam dalmolcp radakt ue angelo dufraui'e lipkonska novel operas to be given the novelties of the season will include such works always in addition to the standard repetory of well known operas â€” as thais jongleur de xotre dame electr.i samson at delilah i'elleas and me'isande herodiade grisilides comtes d'hoffman and louise the elimination of oscar hammersteln enabled andreas dippel who will be the director of the new company to secure i number of the impresario's great singers and also to get the right to produce operas | to which haminersteiu had the sole right in america campanini is musical director the chiccgo season will begin in no vembcr at its close the company will take the road and as the Chicago grand opera company will play extended en gagements in philadelphia baltimore and xew york cleofante campanini will be the general musical director campanini is now con ducting a series of performances in co vent garden london during the season there will be given only five performances a week four even ing performances and one matinee the money necessary to launch the new enter prise has been subscribed officers will be chosen in a few days and an executive committee named harold b mccormici may be the president our plans have been definitely made said mr mccoriniek before this the whole matter was what might be called up in the air the operas will be given on a scale never before attempted in i Chicago mr mcl.'ormiek and charles g danes lmve just reiurncd from new york where ; __ arrangements f^t fche Chicago season were completed albanians pillage town ivill host of tmklsli l.urriximi until set l'irc to dtakovn special catjle to the examiner constantinople may 4 the loan of dlnkova was captured to-day by tue j albanian insurgents after ii siese of ' twenty-se ven hours 1 he victors are re ported to have burned the town after kill ing most of the turkish garrison din j kova is twenty-five miles northwest of : prisreml in the vilayet of liisso and has ; a populatiou of 20\000 comet litup,'rushes at Chicago see it this week or wait 75 years diagrams showing how to locate halley's comet the larger one shows the heavenly wanderer with respect to the earth's orbit during the time it is visible while the other gives its location according to the points of the compass if you follow the guidance of the latter diagram you can't go wrong sky visitor with 22,000,000 miles of tail visible to eye in early morn comet time table ccmet rose to-day 2:43 a.m hises friday morning 3 41 a m i visible to naked eye until 3:55 a to will be difficult to observe without ! telescope after this week how to find halley's celebrated comet j now blazing a trail across the sky almost j in the"pnth it tiie vmhsnu.i : suppose yourself standing on the roof iof the courthouse face directly east and i first fix your eye on the massive propor j lions of the masonic temple then allow your vision to wander a fen feet to the left there it is tha.t large luminous disc with the fiery tail hanging over lake michigan where it looks as if you could reach it if you ha<l a step-ladder is the comet tail 22,000.000 miles long keep your eyes on it for after a few days it will be seventy-five years before you will have another opportunity lo view j it that tail which seems to be perhaps j three or four feet long in realllty is :*>, 000,000 miles in length ii you were sitting astride the weathoi ) vane ou the majestic building tower you . | could finj the comet easily by facing the montgomery ward â– building and allowing your eyes to wander past the left wall over the lake silhouetted against the sky you would see the wanderer and hard by and a little more to the left venus the comet like mutt and little jeff after their raid in wall street is all lit i up its head is brilliant and its tail ap i j pears forty times as long as the full j ! moon appears wide no need for telescope i you will m need glasses if the sky is j clear in the ilast after this week how j ever the nomad will be difficult to oft j serve without a telescope because it moves i into the path of the sun and is swallowed up in its powerful rays from o u in to 3:30 is the best time to see it here are some ot the dimensions of tb wanderer furnished by astronomers pres ent distance from earth 57,000,000 miles length of tail miles speed per second 41 miles preachers for pugilism tito pastors tt-11 av 7 hy frlaie plsht ins should be encouragred pittsisuku pa may a while minis terial associations headed by bishop cort landt whitehead of the episcopal diocese are trjing to have the jeffries-johnson fight stopped two ministers have taken issue with the bishop they are the rev johu 11 dietrich of st marks reformed church and the her a c dieffenbach or the kefornieo church of the ascension the rev mr dietrich said this talk of cruelty and barbarism is utterly silly every man has to fijrht some limes when he does he should light well i the bex mr dieffenbac/h said we each our young men to box in everv v m c a a man who can defend himself without the aid of a gnu is universally ; admired hurricane kills 5,000 victoitia b ci may 4 â€” five tiioti sand are reported to have been killed hi the siiiit sen islands liy a hurricane on m:i veil ill according to word brought hero to-day by the liner maknsa fiji and caledonia bore lie brunt mrs yerkes to wed broker is report leasing of house strengthens rumor she will marry william lohr â€” new yokk may 4 mis charles t ! rerkea baa leased i ic v v king bouse on mrdlser avenue this city wliere it is sÂ«m the widow of the Chicago traction man soon is to he a bride again with the report of the lease to-day new credence was iren the rumor of last week that william r.ohr real estate hroker and j i society man had won tiie heart of the i wealthy widow in fact the engagement i is accepted as a fact by friends of both it is said the marriage of mrs yerkes will take place within a few weeks since the sale of the magnificent yerkes mansion and its art treasures it had not been known what llrs l'erkes dwelling place would l>e there were some reports that she would dwell abroad the latest development the leasing of a large house strengthens the belief of many in lhe report of a forthcoming marriage mi yerkes second husband was wilsiu mizner prexy roosevelt next ambitious to fiend national uni versity backed l carnegie wiasaixgtox may 4 theodore koose vetfs final ambition is to be the founder in washington ot a great national univer sity wtih a foundation backed by un limited capital himself at its head and de votin the remainder of his life to the institution that is the substance of a statement made in washington to-night by men who say they know the former presi dent's diane andrew carnegie according to the scheme is to heal the list of several thousand men of wealth to contribute many millions of dollars for the foundation according to the information available it is said in be roosevelt's purpose to astablish uhat shall he known as the dis tinctively great american or national uni versity liuilt largely on the general scheme of the german universities hut with par ticular attention to buch studies as for estry conservation public health inter state commerce international law and kindred subjects wife tired adjourns socialist borper end heeling or school tmatea for woman milwaukee . wls may 4 alderman victor r berger who has be?n luhlied the ! sohallsr czar of milwaukee adjourned a inee.rins of the school board last flight he cause his wife a member of a committee j could not stay after 11 :,",() o'clock the unanimous adoption of a motion to adjourn followed his explanation k ml hinky dink man quoted boys are g ett n g 1,000 each representative griffin of chi | cago mentioned as trying to persuade colchester leg islator to vote for lorimer terrill asserts first ward man told him it will be to your financial advantage to get on bandwagon western indiana contributed part of slush fund to re publican city campaign story told by thomas j the most important news stirred up res tcrday by the bribery accusations of repre | sentative charles a white panic from mon mouth 111 where representative henry terrill of colchester made the statement that kepresentative jobn griffin a hinky dink kenna democrat of Chicago mid suggested to him â– it will be to your financial benefit to set into the lorimer bandwagon the boya , are retting 1,000 each griffin is the democratic member of th ! lower house from the first district of | Chicago and he is a hanger-ou in hinky '. dink's van buren and clark streets s j loon he voted for lorimer it is expected that both terrill and grtf j fin will be summoned before the cook county grand jury had voted for sherman i during the senatorial battle saiii p rfsentative terrill who is a republican i was approached by griffin who i a nembei of the opposite side of the house i during o;ir conversation the subject of tb isenatorship was broached i had bei | i ardent supporter of eipu:c . ernor i sherman and had been voting for ttfca ballot after ballot tit griffii stl(seste4 that the time had come for me to ally lmygem with the lorimer sup i demurred as i liad done to prerloat pleadings from the lorimer erowd it was that mr griffin offeree the â– â– .â– â– .-..â€” . tion that it would be to my benefit to cast my lot with the loriwerites terrill according to the monmouth ln pnteb decided to fathom griffins pnrposa and inquired how much money there was iu the deal griffin replied in sum and substonca if not in exact words said terrill " the boys are getting 1,000 i continued 10 vote for sherman until the last few bal lots wben i cast my vote cor senator hop ' kins â€¢ griffin expresses doubt griffin was located last evening at i kenua's saloon i don't believe terrill said anything of the kind he said i went to sec terrill j one ov two nights before lorimer was elected and said to him i don't see why you don't vote for lorimer you arc a i republican he is going to win this elec tion and you might as well be with tu j winning crowd it will make you stroii i politically and you will be able to get some oc the patronage like the postmnstorsuip if you want it that was all i said did you promise him he would receive nny money xot a cent said griffin "[ couldn't did you say the boys are getting i,ooo or anything like that didn't hint at money i said nothing of the kind i didn't even hint at such a thing i know nothing about any money bein passed at spring field for lorimer votes or anything else i don't know a thing about these wlilto charges added griffin and there's noth ing that i could tell the grand jiu-y as to this man terrill he knows very well the only reward i mentioned in talking about bis voting for lorimer was political patronage i thought that since he was a republican he might as well get in line a j for the favors lorimer would be able ' am band out after he became senator 4b there's anything wrong in that i'd like to know it why did you take wo much interest in lorimer'a election was asked for the same reason unit the other democrats did we couldn't elect a ni'in of our own and we thought it a good po utlca njove to get behind billy lorimer wayman has witnesses important testimony bearing on the charges of representative white that lie was bribed with l<xx to vote for lori mer and later shared in the distribution of a corruption jack pot to the extent of s'.wo is being prepared by state's at torney wayman for submission ii ma grand jury among the witnesses who are expected to testify to-day is michael s link of madison county one of toe democrats in the lorimer column who white say it the southern llori'l when as he alleged continued on 4th page 4th column i continued on 2d page sth column she coming back after she sees the pas sion play see page 9 | she's coming back i after she sees the pas j sion play see page 9 oooocoooooooc)ooococ)oooooooooc)oocockdoooc i that funny city life section | funnier than ever next sunday jo thk biggest newspaper novelty of the day nothing like it q 1 in no other newspaper can you find the sparkling wit the io lively cartoons the clever art pictures t e powers geo v q hobart dinkel piel nell brinkley james j montague roswell x field dorothy dix ella wheeler wilcox â€” you know all of them c â€” are to be found in this inimitable section of the sunday ex q a miner ;Â« that great magazine section in colors ix cor this week it contains jline maeterlinck ghosts in a q * crystal ball the strange spirit i oi lotta faust o how lady duff-gordon dresses t'ne 400 mark twain's se x c:ret philosophy mnie cavalwii on beauty arts of the jap 1 q anese good breakfasts by mfiie tetrazzini and other fas v cinating page articles i order if our sunday examiner now she's coming back after she sees the pas sion play set paÂ£c v â–

the weather ffi â€¢ â€¢' t ' fvj3 chicaj and vicinity â€” fair s v thursday a.,j probably friday no v i v much change in temperature aocs aijtf vol viii no 1 1 6 a m Chicago examiner thursday Chicago may 5 1910 14 pages thursday registered in c s fatent offiw exceptional bargains if are offered daily in the musical in iv struments columns of the examiner t if you wish to get a new or second y i hand piano at a very moderate price i read the luam jsds * v pricf one cent delivered dy carrier 30 cents per morti chilly greeting given to Taft by farmers convention by john temple graves empty galleries and brief half-hearted applause wel come president when he addresses union in st louis audience slowly and in squads rises to feet but quickly sits again rural hearers won't pretend cordiality john temple graves rouses agriculturists to enthusi asm urging them to prose cute issues in congress st louis mo may 4.-at to-day's session of the farmers union lohn temple graves was introduced by national i'resi > deiu barrett immediately preceding presi dent Taft mr barrett sn id that mr graves was the first prominent editor who had ever writ ten au editorial in behalf of the farmers union lie was also the first prominent man win had made a speech in behalf of the farmers union and that having been tlie first best mid most helpful friend of the union in its struggling years of poverty lie was never to he forgotten in this hoir of the union's greatness and power ami that he was doubly welcome because be was now allied with those great hearst newspapers which were the greatest the motfj powerful and most helpful friends the farmers union had in all america uses own statistics mr graves spoke lo the farmers from statistics gathered by himself from their i records which showed the inarvelo:!s powth and the wonderful influence ofj the organization he stirred liie conven tion to great enthusiasm by cbailcuiriii the american farmer to the idea that b"ja responsibility in the whole country was i cx.-vt proportion to his magnificent power and opportunity he urged them to vigor bus prosecution of their great issue befoi ej congress and asked them to fmpplemebtj those issues by addiug the initiative the i referendum and the recall direct nocuina-j tionv by the people and government ownership of telegraphs and telephones j now as â– â– , preliminary to owning the oth-'rj great public utilities later it is only a statement of fact to say i tl:at ti:e leaders of the farmers movement i declared mr graves speech to be the most instructive and helpful so far in the convention o t louis mo 1 g may 4 if this â– metropolis of t the southwest is i ny fair barometer f political teeing in ] he next presiden i inl campaign tlieu ; emorsoless candor ] must compel me to oufesti that the | iresent admiiilstrn 1 ion poiuts a seaut irospect of a second erui never since 1 uavo ieen a witness of ub i i c occasions have i seen so poor n trek-uine accorded to an occupant of the .. white house as the people of st i.ouis have accorded to william h Taft 1 am too sincerely fond of the president to-Â«x bggerate anything to his detriment but i have a sense of actual indignation that the sheer sense of civic courtesy could not have evoked a better demonstration than st louis gave to william h Taft theie was nothing discourteous that was done but it was the lack of the thing which ought to have been that makes notable the scene in the coliseum to-day i few farmers on stage the president came promptly at 11 o'clock to t lie convention ball there was â€¢ comparatively email fringe of f public men and representative farmers on the j mr.ple stage of the coliseum there was ; n full and brilliant audience in the body of the house the hist gallery was ouly | obe-foartb full and the second gallery had i lmt a seat occupied when the president advanced to bfei ! scar in front there was only one full but ] brief round of applause in which one-half i nf he audience participated slowly anil lji squads the audience followed the ex ahipl of ihe men on the stage and rose to ll'pir feet but sat down again so iuirk lv tout the tribute lost its grace and gig j niticalk e there wa not one spontaneous and sns tallied expression of welcome from the time mr Taft reached his chair until the lime he began to speak saving only the carves harriman tomb and wins his daughter miss fiary harrim c c rumsey young sculptor and miss mary betrcthed in studio romance i new yobs may 4 when e h har riman died a sculptor was sought to carve his tomb charles cary ramsey whose studio was in a dingy building here was selected to-day mr ramsey's family in ! buffalo announced his betrtrtnnl to miss mary harriman mr bmnsey graduated at harvard in 1002 his father was rich but young humsey went to paris to study he was there when miss harriman was reported ! engaged on her trin to the far east with i alice booserek and the Taft party to ! 1 willard straight he was in his tttkito ! j when miss hairiman was reported en i gaged to robert walton coelet mr | i goelet introduced ifc liuiusey to tile liar j ! j-iiuans when mr umuney ivcui to arde <> fjj design the memorial miss harriman v.li ', cares a great deal for horses discovered ! he was n bold and sure rider the ioelet j engagement was denied mr huinsey completed his memorial ami : went back to his studio one day miss harrin::in called on the street floor there was a tailor shop she climbed three flights of creaky stairs the odor of the j janitor's onion stew following hard she i found the sculptor working upon a bead 1 of herself in bas-relief an artist can make a more accurate por trait from i living model than from mem ory miss harriman's fancy took in the practical circumstance so there followed many sittings and now comes the en gagement announcement 12,000,000 for steel sick fund will also pay death benefit anil old age pensions new yokk may 4 ln confirmation of the recent report by the united states steel corporation that a plan was under consideration whereby employes of the company would receive sick nnd death ben efits and a pension after a prescribed term of service judge e h gary â€¢ chairman of the board of directors of the steel com pany to-day issued a statement declaring the corporation had set aside 8,000,000 for the benefit of its employes which added to andrew carnegie's 4,000,000 gift would make an endowment of 12,000,000 the aggregate amount will be known as the united states steel and carnegie pension fund and will be administered by s board of twelve trustees eight of whom have been appointed l>y the uuited states steel corporation and four by mr car negie 30,000 homeless in fire special cable to the examiner kobe japan may 4 reports from aomori northern japan partially destroyed by fl"e tuesday say 8,000 houses and all public bnlmlnga we hurued thirty lliousnnds persons are homeless ami six teen perished the loss is estimated t 10,000,000 mrs dean's letter to tweedie read heavenly twin daughters of late millionaire reveal stepmother's secrets regrets 25,000 pactj missive speaks of grace's i lies and tells of teach ing with awful import in an attempt to show that mrs 3 klla j wood liean stepmother of the beautiful j dean girls at the time o f her marriage ! to millionaire joha k dean did not sign j away her widow's right to his 1,400,000 estate for 20,000 through ignorance of i the world " the first of a series of letters was introduced in court yesterday by at torneys representing mr deans four daughters who are determined that their i stepmother shall not share in the dÂ£an j millions lats in the afternoon argument began i over the introduction of one letter and judge ball will decide this morning whether it is admissible this letter speaks of a broken engagement and is introduced to show that mrs dean before her en j gagement to the aged millionaire had j loved and been loved in turn and that she j was no unsophisticated girl when she j signed the antenuptial agreement which | gave her but si'.ooo in event of dean's j death mrs dean claims that she was not | thoroughly apprised of what she was doing j when she signed away her dower rights to ! her husband's millions tweedie letter is read the letter that was read was one of the | tweedie " letters this name beiug used by xl is dean as a lore-name for her hus band being a made-over adjective to take the place of the more conventional sweetie ills dean's letter to her hus band was partly as follows dear tweedie the eve of our mar riage when i read the couditians you imposed upon me it was plain that in your estimation i did not reach a vor.r high limit i said to you that though 1 had never spoken a word with grace i mrs grace dean jackson i that to be subjected to her lies and with your de votion to her combined there would lie no i-hance for me in ihv future i read her character to a dot the first time i saw her i 1 liiiiiic 1 have attested my love t you in n large measure by many sacri fices for your children but m.v repu tation and happiness are not any of thuse requirements god himself owes me those and i lave always taken them as my right money is the para mount tiling to you it is a question if anybody or any thing could replace a few dollars in your affections but several months ago 1 decided that if it were possible for me to get an engagement in new york i would still further make you happy , by freeing myself from you in order to lose the galling humiliation of tha awful contract from a baby ray first lessons were in self respect and to be virtuous awful import in teaching evidently mrs dean after ber marriage j bitterly regretted the 523,000 contract for in one nan of the letter she snys it is putting the first bitter drop into my life that was as happy and careless as a bird's but love is the only thing i want but 1 don't believe 1 shall ever get it so i steel myself again to the inevitable and look forward simply to protect myself from a danger that eter nally reaches over my head and gives me no peace my first impression of grace was cor rect a girl who will not trust or obey her own father cannot be trusted and i cannot or hihÃŸt not put my life my whole future and present my all into her hands we have had trouble enough in our family perhaps this is going to be dis gustingly like a repetition of it un less i failed to keep my self-respect it would be wiser for me dot to be driven from pillar to post by both you and grace i was willing to keep peace at any cost but the cost is too great and the peace not lo be had in the end this may sound harsh or cut and dried as though one made over a life time like a garment to fit every mood it is only with the deepest and sin cerest religious prayer i cannot write ghicago will have real opera stars imccormick and davves get caruso garden farrar nordica and tetrazzini greatest works assured ; will produce thais pel lias melisande and num | ber of other classics i Chicago may 4 1910 to tho stockholders of the Chicago j grand opera company in connection vith the plans which have been completed mr harold v mccormic.k mid mr charles ft d:iwcs visited the new yoru stockholders dur | ing ihe last wool they are glad to report that subject 1o ratification by the Chicago board of i directors arrangements have been made whereby tie Chicago opera company organization will be used by philadel phia baltimore and new york for the | balance of the operatic season not given in Chicago this insures the opera company a full season in well estab lished operatic communities we are also able to report thni the purchase by the metropolitan interests of the hammerstein organization and property will result in the Chicago opera company having the right to tie hummerstein operas and their best artists including mary garden and tetrazzini and the rights to such opevas as thais l'ellias and melisanfie aad others the Chicago opera company will have at its disposal the best talent of the world and will start its kail sea son wilh every prospect of success wo are glad to state that the sup port accorded by the citizens of chi cago to t'ne project have exceeded our anticipations as well as our necessities kespeetfully hauold f mcoiimick chakles g dawks Chicago will have a ten or twelve weeks season of grand opera next winter and the operas will be sung by the Chicago grand opera company as the letter above indicates after passing through many trials and tribulations retbucks uid disappointments struggles and nioi-k limn struggles tin ' men who set about 1o give Chicago her ' own graud opera company have succeeded and what is more they tiud that they have builded better than they planned artists and artistes whom the promoters of the company hud no idea they could ! secure will sing for Chicago audiences i and operas which it was not thought they j could produce will be staged in the audi torium theater during the grand opera season . j i famous artists are secured the list of grand opera stars whom i tlie Chicago graud opera company has or i will shortly have under contract includes ! canasa baxmnairo white slezaft e anpplic kmimiietzoff ] destinn â€¢ arimondi gardcu hnniiea degtenwos zcrola sclnunann-hciuk kotkcskn mcc'ormack syit.i mazarto kotchesc orcnvillr farrar ijalleru zeppill amato herardi tetraziini melba renaud hafsi kanms lam dalmolcp radakt ue angelo dufraui'e lipkonska novel operas to be given the novelties of the season will include such works always in addition to the standard repetory of well known operas â€” as thais jongleur de xotre dame electr.i samson at delilah i'elleas and me'isande herodiade grisilides comtes d'hoffman and louise the elimination of oscar hammersteln enabled andreas dippel who will be the director of the new company to secure i number of the impresario's great singers and also to get the right to produce operas | to which haminersteiu had the sole right in america campanini is musical director the chiccgo season will begin in no vembcr at its close the company will take the road and as the Chicago grand opera company will play extended en gagements in philadelphia baltimore and xew york cleofante campanini will be the general musical director campanini is now con ducting a series of performances in co vent garden london during the season there will be given only five performances a week four even ing performances and one matinee the money necessary to launch the new enter prise has been subscribed officers will be chosen in a few days and an executive committee named harold b mccormici may be the president our plans have been definitely made said mr mccoriniek before this the whole matter was what might be called up in the air the operas will be given on a scale never before attempted in i Chicago mr mcl.'ormiek and charles g danes lmve just reiurncd from new york where ; __ arrangements f^t fche Chicago season were completed albanians pillage town ivill host of tmklsli l.urriximi until set l'irc to dtakovn special catjle to the examiner constantinople may 4 the loan of dlnkova was captured to-day by tue j albanian insurgents after ii siese of ' twenty-se ven hours 1 he victors are re ported to have burned the town after kill ing most of the turkish garrison din j kova is twenty-five miles northwest of : prisreml in the vilayet of liisso and has ; a populatiou of 20\000 comet litup,'rushes at Chicago see it this week or wait 75 years diagrams showing how to locate halley's comet the larger one shows the heavenly wanderer with respect to the earth's orbit during the time it is visible while the other gives its location according to the points of the compass if you follow the guidance of the latter diagram you can't go wrong sky visitor with 22,000,000 miles of tail visible to eye in early morn comet time table ccmet rose to-day 2:43 a.m hises friday morning 3 41 a m i visible to naked eye until 3:55 a to will be difficult to observe without ! telescope after this week how to find halley's celebrated comet j now blazing a trail across the sky almost j in the"pnth it tiie vmhsnu.i : suppose yourself standing on the roof iof the courthouse face directly east and i first fix your eye on the massive propor j lions of the masonic temple then allow your vision to wander a fen feet to the left there it is tha.t large luminous disc with the fiery tail hanging over lake michigan where it looks as if you could reach it if you ha, 000,000 miles in length ii you were sitting astride the weathoi ) vane ou the majestic building tower you . | could finj the comet easily by facing the montgomery ward â– building and allowing your eyes to wander past the left wall over the lake silhouetted against the sky you would see the wanderer and hard by and a little more to the left venus the comet like mutt and little jeff after their raid in wall street is all lit i up its head is brilliant and its tail ap i j pears forty times as long as the full j ! moon appears wide no need for telescope i you will m need glasses if the sky is j clear in the ilast after this week how j ever the nomad will be difficult to oft j serve without a telescope because it moves i into the path of the sun and is swallowed up in its powerful rays from o u in to 3:30 is the best time to see it here are some ot the dimensions of tb wanderer furnished by astronomers pres ent distance from earth 57,000,000 miles length of tail miles speed per second 41 miles preachers for pugilism tito pastors tt-11 av 7 hy frlaie plsht ins should be encouragred pittsisuku pa may a while minis terial associations headed by bishop cort landt whitehead of the episcopal diocese are trjing to have the jeffries-johnson fight stopped two ministers have taken issue with the bishop they are the rev johu 11 dietrich of st marks reformed church and the her a c dieffenbach or the kefornieo church of the ascension the rev mr dietrich said this talk of cruelty and barbarism is utterly silly every man has to fijrht some limes when he does he should light well i the bex mr dieffenbac/h said we each our young men to box in everv v m c a a man who can defend himself without the aid of a gnu is universally ; admired hurricane kills 5,000 victoitia b ci may 4 â€” five tiioti sand are reported to have been killed hi the siiiit sen islands liy a hurricane on m:i veil ill according to word brought hero to-day by the liner maknsa fiji and caledonia bore lie brunt mrs yerkes to wed broker is report leasing of house strengthens rumor she will marry william lohr â€” new yokk may 4 mis charles t ! rerkea baa leased i ic v v king bouse on mrdlser avenue this city wliere it is sÂ«m the widow of the Chicago traction man soon is to he a bride again with the report of the lease to-day new credence was iren the rumor of last week that william r.ohr real estate hroker and j i society man had won tiie heart of the i wealthy widow in fact the engagement i is accepted as a fact by friends of both it is said the marriage of mrs yerkes will take place within a few weeks since the sale of the magnificent yerkes mansion and its art treasures it had not been known what llrs l'erkes dwelling place would l>e there were some reports that she would dwell abroad the latest development the leasing of a large house strengthens the belief of many in lhe report of a forthcoming marriage mi yerkes second husband was wilsiu mizner prexy roosevelt next ambitious to fiend national uni versity backed l carnegie wiasaixgtox may 4 theodore koose vetfs final ambition is to be the founder in washington ot a great national univer sity wtih a foundation backed by un limited capital himself at its head and de votin the remainder of his life to the institution that is the substance of a statement made in washington to-night by men who say they know the former presi dent's diane andrew carnegie according to the scheme is to heal the list of several thousand men of wealth to contribute many millions of dollars for the foundation according to the information available it is said in be roosevelt's purpose to astablish uhat shall he known as the dis tinctively great american or national uni versity liuilt largely on the general scheme of the german universities hut with par ticular attention to buch studies as for estry conservation public health inter state commerce international law and kindred subjects wife tired adjourns socialist borper end heeling or school tmatea for woman milwaukee . wls may 4 alderman victor r berger who has be?n luhlied the ! sohallsr czar of milwaukee adjourned a inee.rins of the school board last flight he cause his wife a member of a committee j could not stay after 11 :,",() o'clock the unanimous adoption of a motion to adjourn followed his explanation k ml hinky dink man quoted boys are g ett n g 1,000 each representative griffin of chi | cago mentioned as trying to persuade colchester leg islator to vote for lorimer terrill asserts first ward man told him it will be to your financial advantage to get on bandwagon western indiana contributed part of slush fund to re publican city campaign story told by thomas j the most important news stirred up res tcrday by the bribery accusations of repre | sentative charles a white panic from mon mouth 111 where representative henry terrill of colchester made the statement that kepresentative jobn griffin a hinky dink kenna democrat of Chicago mid suggested to him â– it will be to your financial benefit to set into the lorimer bandwagon the boya , are retting 1,000 each griffin is the democratic member of th ! lower house from the first district of | Chicago and he is a hanger-ou in hinky '. dink's van buren and clark streets s j loon he voted for lorimer it is expected that both terrill and grtf j fin will be summoned before the cook county grand jury had voted for sherman i during the senatorial battle saiii p rfsentative terrill who is a republican i was approached by griffin who i a nembei of the opposite side of the house i during o;ir conversation the subject of tb isenatorship was broached i had bei | i ardent supporter of eipu:c . ernor i sherman and had been voting for ttfca ballot after ballot tit griffii stl(seste4 that the time had come for me to ally lmygem with the lorimer sup i demurred as i liad done to prerloat pleadings from the lorimer erowd it was that mr griffin offeree the â– â– .â– â– .-..â€” . tion that it would be to my benefit to cast my lot with the loriwerites terrill according to the monmouth ln pnteb decided to fathom griffins pnrposa and inquired how much money there was iu the deal griffin replied in sum and substonca if not in exact words said terrill " the boys are getting 1,000 i continued 10 vote for sherman until the last few bal lots wben i cast my vote cor senator hop ' kins â€¢ griffin expresses doubt griffin was located last evening at i kenua's saloon i don't believe terrill said anything of the kind he said i went to sec terrill j one ov two nights before lorimer was elected and said to him i don't see why you don't vote for lorimer you arc a i republican he is going to win this elec tion and you might as well be with tu j winning crowd it will make you stroii i politically and you will be able to get some oc the patronage like the postmnstorsuip if you want it that was all i said did you promise him he would receive nny money xot a cent said griffin "[ couldn't did you say the boys are getting i,ooo or anything like that didn't hint at money i said nothing of the kind i didn't even hint at such a thing i know nothing about any money bein passed at spring field for lorimer votes or anything else i don't know a thing about these wlilto charges added griffin and there's noth ing that i could tell the grand jiu-y as to this man terrill he knows very well the only reward i mentioned in talking about bis voting for lorimer was political patronage i thought that since he was a republican he might as well get in line a j for the favors lorimer would be able ' am band out after he became senator 4b there's anything wrong in that i'd like to know it why did you take wo much interest in lorimer'a election was asked for the same reason unit the other democrats did we couldn't elect a ni'in of our own and we thought it a good po utlca njove to get behind billy lorimer wayman has witnesses important testimony bearing on the charges of representative white that lie was bribed with l